Syllabus  One. 


History, 

Literature 

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> * > . ) > 

and  Expression 

In  the  Grades. 

By — — 

ELMA  RUFF, 

Department  of  English  and  Literature, 
Colorado  State  Normal  School. 
1895=6. 


Greeley  Sun  Job  Print. 


Syllabus  One, 


STUDIES  IN  ^ 

H istory , 

Literature 

and  Expression, 

In  the  Grades. 


By 

ELMA  RUFF, 

Department  of  Literature  and  English, 
Colorado  State  Normal  School. 


1895=6. 


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Objects  of  the  Course. 

1.  To  bring  the  pupil  in  touch  with  the  best 
literature  and  the  best  books,  and  so  direct  his 
tastes  and  desires. 

2.  To  prepare  the  way  by  a vivid  presenta- 
tion of  great  social  and  culture  epochs,  for  a 
broader  interpretation  of  life  and  a more  special- 
ized work  in  higher  grades. 

3.  To  aid  the  teacher  in  a proper  selection  of 
matter  by/  grouping  work  around  great  epochs  of 
social,  political  and  religious  development  and 
expression. 


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Notes. 


Almost  the  entire  course  has  been  actually 
given  in  this  form  with  excellent  prcatical  results. 

The  teacher  should  be  able  to  talk  simply  and 
vividly  and  to  read  interpretatively,  to  adapt  artis- 
tically and  to  expurgate  so  that  the  matter  is  in 
harmony  with  the  best  experiences  and  purest  race 
instincts  and  thought  life  of  the  child. 

The  entire  course  should  be  illuminated  by 
pictures  of  the  best  chaste  art,  photographs  of 
authors,  statesmen,  the  homes  and  haunts  of  great 
men  and  historic  places  and  cities. 

Primary  and  much  of  intermediate  grade  work 
is  given  in  oral  story  form.  Poetry  should  be  in- 
terpreted and  read  by  the  teacher. 


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First  and  Second  Grades. 


Literature  should  be  given  with  nature  studies 
and  seasons  of  the  year. 

1 . Nature  myths  concerning  the  winds, 

clouds,  brooks,  seasons,  etc. 

2.  Bible  stories  such  as: 

The  Boyhood  of  David  and  Jonathan. 
Story  of  Saul — Browning. 

Stories  of  Joseph,  Moses,  Ruth,  Esther. 

3.  Art  forms  growing  out  of  children’s  obser- 

vations and  nature  studies. 

BOOKS. 

Stories  from: 

Classic  Stories  for  Little  Ones — Mrs 
McMurray. 

In  Story  Land. — Elizabeth  Harrison. 
Anderson. 

Grimm. 

Aesop’s  Fables. 

Parables  from  Nature. 

Kipling’s  Jungle  Book. 

Uncle  Remus — Harris. 

The  Rhine  Legends. 

Poems  from: 

Mary  I.  Lovejoy’s  Nature  in  Verse. 


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Fields. 

Riley. 

Stevenson’s  Garden  of  Verse. 

Kindergarten  Magazine. 

Public  School  Journal. 

Story  of  Tithonus. — -Tennyson.  See 
Guido  Reni’s  Aurroa. 

The  Story  of  Undine. 

Kingsley’s  Water  Babies. 

Interpret  and  read: 

The  Brook. — Tennyson. 

The  Song  of  the  Chattahoochee.  See 
Lanier. 

The  Snow  Image. — Hawthorne.  (Read 
Partly.) 

The  Great  Stone  Pace. — Hawthorne. 

(Read  partly.) 

Pied  Piper  of  Hameln. — Browning. 

The  Story  of  Proserpine  and  the  Sleep- 
ing Beauty  compared.  Read  parts 
of  Tennyson’s  Day  Dream. 


Third  and  Fourth  Grades. 


1.  Stories  of  adventure  : 

Robinson  Crusoe. 

Gulliver’s  Adventures  .A.mong  the  Lilli- 
putians and  Brobdingnags. 


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The  Tempest. — Lamb’s  Tales. 

Story  and  adapted  Readings  from  Paul 
Virginia. 

2.  Stories  in  Home  History. 

See  Pioneer  History  Stories. — McMur- 
iay. 

Stories  of  the  Mississippi  Valley. — Mc- 
Murray. 

Stories  from  the  Making  of  the  Great 
West — Drake. 

Stories  from  Winning  of  the  Great 
W est. — Roosevelt. 

Story  of  Montezuma. 

Story  of  Pizarro. 

Stories  from  the  Land  of  the  Pueblos. 

Read  Hiawatha. 

z.  Art  forms  from  Literature  and  Indian 

Life. 


Fifth  and  Sixth  Grades.* 

HEROIC  AGE  OF  THE  CHILD. 

Ancient  and  Modern  Life.  Outlined  in  Primary 

Form. 

ANCIENT  LIFE. 

i.  What  our  little  Greek  cousins  long  ago 


*May  be  given  to  Third  and  Fourth  Grades. 


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thought  of  trees,  brooks  and  mountains. 

2.  Their  home  by  the  sea. 

3.  Story  of  Perseus 
Story  of  Jason 
Story  of  Theseus 
Story  of  Mid-Summer  Night’s  Dream. - 

Lamb. 

4.  They  sail  away  to  Troy. 

Stories  and  Readings  from  Chapman 
or  Bryant,  or  De  Garmo’s  Stories 
of  Troy. 

Brookes’  Homer. 

Story  and  readings  from  Tennyson’s 
Oenone. 

Story  and  readings  from  Tennyson’s 
Lotus  Eaters. 

5.  They  build  rude  temples  and  work  in 

bronze  and  gold, 

Lion-Gate  of  Mykenae. 

Harp  of  Cheiron. 

Shield  of  Achilles. 

Story  of  Orpheus.  Mrs.  Browning’s 
musical  instrument  interpreted  and 
read  by  teacher. 

6.  The  little  Spartan  boy  Lycurgus,  or  Spar- 

tan ideals  and  manners  and  educa- 
tion. 

7.  The  little  Athenian  boy  Cleisthenes,  his 


Kingsley’s  Greek  Heroes  (ex- 
purgated. ) 


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youth,  and  service  to  Athens;  also 
Athenian  ideals  and  education. 

8.  Our  little  cousins  resolve  to  take  a holi- 
day. (Greek  games.) 

Reading  from  Ben  Hur  and  Eber’s 
Serapis  for  description  of  chariot 
races. 

g.  How  a great  king  came  to  take  away  the 
home  of  the  Greeks. 

Readings  from  Abbott’s  Darius  and 
Xerxes. 

Story  of  Aeschylus’  Drama.  The  Per- 
sians. 

10.  The  hero  of  Marathon. — Miltiades. 

it.  The  hero  of  Thermopylae. — Leonidas. 

12.  The  hero  of  Salamas. — Themistocles. 

13.  The  City  of  Pericles. 

Greek  art.  Doric,  Ionic,  Corinthian 
Column,  Greek  Temple,  Greek 
Vase. 

Greek  ornament  compared  with  Egyp- 
tian art. 

Stories  of  the  adaptation  of  their  art 
from  nature  forms, 

Story  and  readings  from  Pygmalion,  a 
drama. 

Story  and  readings  from  the  statue 
scene  of  the  Hunter’s  Tale. 


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14.  The  great  poet  teachers,  artists  and  wise 

men  of  Greece. 

Story  of  Aicestes. — Euripides. 

Story  of  Antigone. — Sophocles. 
Compare  with  story  of  Cordelia. — 
Shakespeare. 

15.  The  quarrel  of  the  two  sister  cities  and 

its  result. 

Destruction  of  Athens. 

Heroic  devotion  of  Pericles. 

Memory  gems  from  his  great  speech. 

16.  The  hero  of  Thebes. 

Story  of  Epaminondas  and  his  two  great 
battles. 

Story  of  The  Seven  against  Thebes. 

17.  The  long,  weary  march. 

Xenophon’s  Anabasis. 

Story  of  Callias,  with  readings  from  the 
same. 

18.  The  great  Greek  conqueror. 

Alexander  the  Great.  See  Abbott’s 
biography  for  story. 

The  great  cities  and  centers  of  art  and 
learning,  Rhodes,  Alexandria,  etc. 
See  Eber’s  Serapis;  descriptions  from 
Kingsley’s  Hypatia. 

iq.  How  the  Greeks’  own  cousin  came  to 
Athens,  or  the  Roman  Conquest. 


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20.  His  life  among  the  hills. 

Glory  of  Athens. 

Other  stories  from  the  myth  age  of 
Rome. 

21.  His  notion  of  the  beautiful. 

The  Roman  arch  and  aqueduct. 

Etruscan  vase. 

22.  How  the  city  grew. 

Its  temples,  triumphal  arches,  mosaic 
work,  baths,  etc. 

Its  great  men. 

Story  and  reading  of  great  part  of  Julius 
Caesar,  from  Shakespeare. 

Readings  from  Cicero’s  orations. 
(Handy  classic  translation.) 

23.  News  from  the  far  east. 

Review  of  Bible  stories  emphasizing  the 
boyhood  of  Christ. 


MODERN  LIFE. 

i.  Talk — What  people  long  ago  thought  about 
the  shape  of  the  earth. 

Story  of  Marco  Polo. 

Story  of  aViking  bold. — Leif. 

Interpret  and  read  Skeleton  in  Armor. 
— Longfellow.  Portions  of  the  Dis- 
covery of  the  North  Cape. 

2.  Story  of  a great  Spanish  hero,  (Colum- 


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bus.)  See  Irving’s  Columbus. 

3.  Story  of  a brave  monk. — Las  Casas. 

Review  stories  from  the  land  of  the 
Pueblos. — Susan  Wallace. 

Read  selections  adapted  from  Frank 
Cushing’s  Life  Among  the  Zunis. — 
Century,  August,  December,  1882. 

Read  Hiawatha. 

Story  of  Cooper’s  Last  of  the  Mohicans 

4.  Story  of  Captain  John  Smith. — See 

Eggleston’s  Pocahontas  and  Pow- 
hatan. 

5.  A memorable  voyage. 

The  sail  of  the  Mayflower. 

Two  English  heroes,  Bradford  and 
Winslow. 

6.  They  build  a home. 

Compare  with  cities  and  palaces  of  Eu- 
rope and  England  at  this  time. 

Pictures  on  the  art  of  Europe  at  this 
time. 

Readings  and  the  story  of  Miles  Stan- 
dish.— Longfellow.  See  Standishof 
Standish. — Jane  Austen. 

Give  pictures  from  Whittier’s  Snow- 
bound. 

Give  pictures  from  Effingham  Maynard’s 
Historic  Readings. 


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7.  Our  little  English  cousins’  manners,  cus- 

toms, education,  etc. 

Read  from  Twice  Told  Tales. — Haw- 
thorne. 

8.  Our  little  New  York  and  Pennsylvania 

cousins,  or  Dutch  manners  and 
customs. 

Stories  and  readings  from  Irving’s 
Knickerbocker  History  of  N.  Y. 
Lossing’s  Old  Time  Life  in  Albany. 
Paulding’s  Dutchman’s  Fireside. 

q.  Our  southern  cousins. 

Stories  of  southern  life  from  Cooke’s 
Stories  of  the  Old  Dominion. 

, Kennedy’s  Rob  of  the  Bowl. 

10.  Western  life. 

Story  of  Kit  Carson. 

Story  of  John  C.  P'remont. 

Santa  Fe  and  Oregon  Trail.  See 
Parkman. 

Review  Stories  of  Middle  West. 

11.  Stories  of  the  great  trading  posts  along 

the  Ohio  river. 

The  jealousy  of  the  French  and  English 
and  its  result. 

A farmer  boy  goes  on  a journey. 

Washington. 

Braddock’s  Story. 

Story  of  Franklin. 


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Story  of  Evangeline  with  memory  gems 

12.  Daniel  Boone. 

Life  on  the  New  Frontier.  See  Park- 
man’s  Pontiac. 

13.  How  our  cousins  grew  in  their  notions  of 

the  beautiful. 

Mount  Vernon. 

The  Old  Baronial  Hall. 

Dutch  Colonial  Home. 

Harvard  college. 

Church  and  school  buildings  of  the 
period.  See  Library  American  Lit- 
erature, III  137.  See  Thos.  Jones’ 
History  of  New  York. 

14.  Our  cousins  unite  in  a common  cause,  or 

Washington  once  more. 

Story  of  the  Revolution. 

Literature  on  the  period. 

Paul  Revere. 

Interpret  and  read 

Emerson’s  Concord  Hymn. 

Holmes’  Grandmother’s  Story  of  the 
Battle  of  Bunker  Hill. 

The  ballads  of  the  period.  See  old 
south  leaflets  and  Library  of 
American  Literature. 

Bryant’s  Song  of  Marion’s  men. 

The  Yankee  Man- of  War. 

Tell  several  stories  of  Boys  of  ’76. 


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Read  the  Liberty  Bell. 

Memory  gems  from  speeches  of  the 
times;  Otis,  Patrick  Henry,  Adams, 

and  others. 


MEDIAEVAL  LIFE.  (ABRIDGED.) 

Talks  throughout  the  course  on  the  art,  also 
the  political  and  social  life.  Specialized  center: 
England. 

1.  The  boyhood  of  the  Kelt. 

H is  island  home,  customs,  habits  and 
manners. 

Art  forms  from  Druid  temples, his  home, 
temples,  instruments  of  war,  etc. 

Story  of  his  little  sister  Imogene,  the 
peerless.  See  Girlhood  of  Shakes- 
peare’s Heroines. — Mary  D.  Clark 
and  Lamb. 

Review  story  of  Cordelia  for  comparison 
of  character. 

Read  almost  all  of  Merchant  of  Venice, 
or  story  of  Portia. 

2.  How  the  Romans  came  to  England. 

Pictures  of  highways,  temples,  cities. 

Stories  from  King  Arthur’s  round  table. 

Interpret  and  read  large  portions  of  the 
Comning  of  Arthur,  and  The  Pass- 
ing of  Arthur — Tennyson,  Lady  of 
Shalott,  and  portions  of  Elaine. 


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3.  How  the  Germans  came  over. 

Their  home  in  the  forest. 

Stories  from  the  Niebelu.iger  Lied. 
See  Wiiliam  Morris’  Story  of  Si- 
gurd. To  be  adapted. 

4.  How  the  Vikings  swooped  down  upon 

England. 

Their  life  on  the  ocean. 

Read  large  parts  of  Frithiof’s  Saga,  by 
Anderson,  Skeleton  in  Armor,  and 
parts  of  Voyage  to  Vineland. — 
Lowell. 

5.  Other  literature  illustrative  of  the  social, 

religious  and  political  life. 

Partly  read,  partly  tell,  Ivanhoe,  Quen- 
tin Durward,  Anne  of  Geierstein. 

Tell  Lessing’s  Nathan,  the  Wise.  Read 
story  of  three  rings  from  this. 

Stories  from  Don  Quixote. 

Stories  from  Dante. 

Interpret  and  read 

The  Legend  Beautiful. — Longfellow. 

Large  parts  of  The  Lay  of  the  Last 
Minstrel. — Scott. 

The  Lady  of  the  Lake. — Scott. 

Portions  of  the  Golden  Legend. 

Stories  from  Wagner’s  operas  Lohen- 
grin and  Parsifal. 

Read  Sir  Launfal. — Lowell. 


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The  Flight  of  the  Duchess. — Browning. 
Story  of  Pompilia. — Morris’  Stories  of 
Ten  Poets. 

Hovey’s  Taliesin. 

Story  and  Selections  from  Pompeii. 
Story  and  Selections  from  Hypatia. 
Story  of  Schiller’s  drama.  Maid  of  Or- 
leans. 

6.  Talks  on  art  somewhat  outlined. 

Introduction  of  Christian  notions. 
Catacombs  of  Rome.  Adapt  from  Mar- 
ble Faun  description  of  catacombs. 
Story  of  St.  Cecelia. 

Interpret  and  read 

Alexander’s  P'east. — Dryden. 

Pictures  of  Raphael’s  St.  Cecelia,  at  the 
Organ,  and  with  Angel  Choir. 
Michael  Angelo’s  David. 

Church  of  St.  Marks. 

Notre  Dame. 

Cathedral  of  Amiens. 

Cathedral  of  Cologne. 

Carthusian  Monastery. 

Castle  of  St  Ulric. 

Cloth  Hall  of  Ypres. 

The  Louvre. 

The  Escorial. 

White  Hall  Palace. 

Holyrood,  etc. 


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Moorish  architecture.  See  Irving’s 
Alhambra. 

Note:  Forms  ot  expression  may  consist  of 
comparisons,  discussions,  imaginary  letters,  repro- 
ductions, imaginary  dialogues,  etc. 

BOOKS. 

Plutarch  for  Boys  and  Girls. — Eldridge 
Brookes. 

Herodotus  for  Boys  and  Girls.— Eldridge 
Brookes. 

Historic  Boys. — Eldridge  Brookes. 

Historic  Girls.  —Eldridge  Brookes. 

Abbott’s  Biographies. 

All  of  Church’s  Works. 

Th  ree  Children  of  Galilee. — John  Gor- 
don. 

The  Court  of  King  Arthur. — Frost. 

King  Arthur  and  Knights  of  the  Round 
Table. 

Christmas  Tales. — Harrison  Morris. 

Tales  from  the  Poets. — Harrison  Morris. 

Around  the  World. — Harrison  Morris. 

Tales  from  the  old  Dramatists. — Charles 
Morris.  Four  volumes. 

Tales  Historical. — Charles  Morris.  Six 
volumes.  May  refer  pupils  to  Half 
Hours  with  Best  Foreign  Authors, 
and  Half  Hours  with  Best  American 


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Authors. — Charles  Morris.  Eight 
volumes. 

Hawthorne’s  Tanglewood  Tales. 
Hawthorne’s  Wonder  Book. 

Lodge’s  Ballads  and  Lyrics. 

Lamb’s  Tales  of  Shakespeare. 

Miss  Alcott’s  Books. 

Miss  Buckley’s  Books. 

Books  of  Miss  Wiggins. 

Books  of  Oliver  Optic. 

Books  of  Eggleston. 

Tom  Sawyer. — Twain. 

Scott’s  Ivanhoe. 

Scott’s  Ouentin  Durward. 

Scott’s  Poems. 

Hero  1'ales  from  American  History. — 
Roosevelt  & Lodge. 

Higginson’s  Young  Folks  Book  of 
American  Explorers. 

Parkman’s  Works. 

Leather  Stocking  Tales. — Cooper. 

St.  Nicholas. 

Charles  Skinner’s  Myths  and  Legends 
of  our  own  Land. 

The  Making  of  New  England. — Drake. 
Effingham  Maynard’s  Historical  Read- 
ings. 

Cooke’s  Stories  of  the  Old  Dominion. 
Kennedy’s  Rob  of  the  Bowl. 

Thayer’s  Farmer  Boy. 


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Little  Classics.  (Teacher’s  selections.) 


Seventh  and  Eighth  Grades. 

(abridged.) 

Note:  Specialized  work  may  be  given  in 
Longfellow,  Tennyson,  Holmes,  etc. 

Read  entirely  Evangeline. 

Read  entirely  Enoch  Arden. 

Interpret  and  read  The  Princess. 

Read  Snowbound. 

Arnold’s  Sorhab  and  Rustun. 

MODERN  LIFE. 

Specialized  center:  America.  Talks  by  the 
teacher  on  the  religious  notions,  social  and  politi 
cal  life  of  the  sixteenth  century  in  Englandand  on 
the  continent. 

1.  The  great  men  and  women  of  the  period; 
Marie  Stuart,  Elizabeth,  Shakespeare, 
Raleigh,  Sidney,  Bacon,  Spenser. 

See  journeys  to  the  Homes  of  Great 
Authors. 

Tell  and  read  selections  from  Schiller’s 
Marie  Stuart. 

Read  Selections  from  Kenilworth. 

Read  Selections  from  Westward  Ho. — 
Kingsley. 


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Read  from  the  Rise  of  the  Dutch  Re- 
public, especially  Portraits  of  Wil- 
liam of  Orange,  Charles  V,  Philip 
II,  also  Siege  of  Antwerp  and  bridg- 
ing of  the  Scheldt  and  Spanish 
Armada. 

2.  Review  in  full  biography  of  Columbus, 

and  compare  his  motives  of  discovery 
with  those  of  Drake,  Cortez,  Pizarro. 

Interpret  and  read  Tennyson’s  Columbus. 

3.  Review  in  full  colonial  life  and  compare 

cities  and  palaces  of  Europe  and  Eng- 
land with  American  homes  and  cities. 

4.  Review  Washington’s  Revolutionary 

career. 

Read  the  following  literature  on  the 
epoch: 

Webster’s  Bunker  Hill  orations. 

Selections  from  Burke’s  Speeches  on 
America. 

Review  all  literature  given  in  course  on 
this  epoch. 

5.  Washington  once  more. 

A typical  American. 

A full  discussion  of  his  motives,  bravery 
and  democratic  spirit. 

He  presides  over  the  great  convention. 

He  is  made  president  of  the  United 


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States. 

See  Irving  & Lodge’s  Life  of  Wash- 
ington. 

Read  his  Farewell  Address.  See  Old 
South  Leaflets. 

Read  Selections  from  the  great  debates 
in  the  convention.  Found  in  emi- 
nent statesman  series.  Hamilton, 
Morris,  Madison,  Jefferson. 

Readings  from  Madison’s  Journal  in  Old 
South  Leaflets. 

6.  Story  of  Madison. 

See  Lord’s  Beacon  Lights  for  Hamilton 

7.  Story  of  Madison. 

8.  Story  of  Jefferson. 

Follow  Eminent  Statesman  Series  for 
biographical  work. 

q.  Biography  of  Lincoln. 

Literature  on  the  period. 

Read  speech  of  Wendell  Phillips  on 
John  Brown. 

Read  Character  and  Heroic  Character. 
—Whipple. 

Read  Webster's  Reply  to  Hayne. 

Read  selections  from  Everett’s  speeches. 

Read  selections  from  Beecher’s  ser- 
mons in  regard  to  Slavery. 

Read  Lowell’s  Present  Crisis. 


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Read  Lincoln’s  Speeches  and  Inaugura 
Address. 

Interpret  and  read  Lowell’s  Ode  to  Wil- 
liam L oyd  Garrison. 

Read  Selections  from  Whittier’s  Voices 
of  Freedom. 

BOOKS. 

Scott’s  Novels. 

Mark  Twain’s  Books. 

Thayer’s  Farmer  Boy,  Washington. 

All  books  indicated  in  Fifth  and  Sixth 
Grade  Reading  course. 

Eminent  Statesmen  Series. 

Story  of  the  States  Series. 

Pilgrims  and  Puritans — Moore. 

All  of  Ebers’  Novels. 

American  and  English  Poets. 

Scribner’s  for  1887,  (contains  story  of  a 
Girl’s  Life  Eighty  Years  Ago.) 

Coffin’s  Old  Times  in  the  Colonies. 

Cooke’s  Stories  of  the  Old  Dominion. 

Kennedy’s  Rob  of  the  Bowl. 

Historical  Classical  Readings. — Effing 
ham  Maynard’s  Series. 

Irving’s  Columbus. 

History  of  New  York. 

Irving’s  Sketch  Book. 

Irving’s  Alhambra. 

Many  of  the  Heroes  of  the  Nation 
Series. 


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The  Mill  on  the  Floss. 

Dickens’  David  Copperfield. 

Many  of  the  Stories  of  the  Nation 
Series. 

The  Fair  God. — Wallace. 

Ben  Flur. — Wallace. 

Prince  of  India. — Wallace. 

The  Wandering  Jew. 

Lord’s  Beacon  Lights  of  History. 

Mary  D.  Clark’s  Girlhood  of  Shakes- 
peare’s Heroines. 

Burroughs’  Works. 

Thoreau’s  Walden. 

Mabie’s  Under  the  Tree. 


Books  by  which  the  teacher  may  give  large 
portions  of  the  work  fairly  well: 

A good  general  history — Barnes  or 
Myers. 

Kingsley’s  Greek  Heroes.  (Expurgated.) 
Lamb’s  Tales  of  Shakespeare. 

Brookes’  Homer. 

Abbott’s  Biographies. 

Morris’  Tales  of  the  Dramatists. 
American  History  Stories. 

American  Poets. 

Selections  from  American  arose 
writers. 

Classic  Stories  for  Children. 


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Kingsley’s  Water  Babies. 

A Manual  of  Greek  Archaeology. — 
Collignon. 

Mediaeval  Art. — Reber. 

Foundations  of  Literature. 


Inspiring  books: 

Mabie’s  Nature  and  Culture. 

Mabie’s  Books  and  Culture. 

Stedman’s  Elements  of  Poetry. 

Leslie’s  Hours  in  a Library. 

Gems  of  restful  nature  painting  from  the 
best  poets  to  suit  the  hour  and  the  mood,  should 
be  given  throughout  the  course. — See  Morris’ 
Where  the  Meadows  Meet  the  Sea. 


Any  book  in  the  course  may  be  obtained  from 
A.  C.  McClurg,  Chicago. 


